I am drawn to unpacking objects or symbols and using them as story-telling devices to help think through complex entangled political matter(s).
Currently, I am collaborating on a book with Eline Benjaminsen on Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas. We are unravelling financial slang and its etymological histories, revealing the absurd (super)natural ‘fictions’ that shape our worldly ecology. This project is expanding Sami Hammana’s initial Geofinancial Lexicon.
Recently, I have just finished a series of three zines for the KABK Studium Generale series: An exploration of wxtch craft as a queer feminist liberatory practice, as editor, program touchstone, designer and producer. Together with Erika Sprey and many others. I now guide the editorial and visual process for Earth Craft: The Word for World is Soil.
Besides this, I have just started teaching at the MA Critical Inquiry Lab at the Design Academy.
I spent two years at the Dutch Art Institute roaming through Europe, an academy where theory and praxis meets in a communal, collaborative manner. Academic research there revolved around anxieties of ‘making sense,’ and the infrastructures and languages that produce doubt, setting out the stakes of forms of magical thinking and how pluralism or scepticism can be exploited by the right.
Fertile Imaginaries: A Vessel for 92% Water, was a materialisation of this research, spending time with watermelons to unpack the political narratives of this fruit within fossil and racial capital. Seven texts were written resulting from the seeds, the rind, the juice. Dealing with questions around reproduction, infertility, quantum plural futurity, fermentation as a form of queering time and symbiotic cooperation, and bodily coping methods in heatwaves – as this durable vessel of 92% water is one for survival. What to preserve, what to transform?
Here is a small grasp of recent projects, writings, and design work. There are small descriptions if you hover and more imagery if you click.
I work on commissions in graphic, editorial and publication design, for which you can hire me :-)
Here you can see a selection of commissioned publications I designed from 2013 until now.
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Based between Maastricht, Amsterdam and The Hague